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PUNCH.

No. 600,587 Patented Mar'. 15,1898.

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PUNGH.

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Patentd Mar. 15, 18.98.

STATES PATENT FFICE.

PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,587, dated March 15, 1898. Application filed D cember 21, 1896. Serial No. 616,418. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABBOT AUGUSTUS Low, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Punches, of

which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

My improvements relate to devices for stamping or perforating cards by hand, as set forth in my concurrent application, Serial No. 610,919, filed November 3, 1896, in which the novelty consists, primarily, in combining and arranging with a hand-punch a rectangular gage which is adjustable both laterally and longitudinally with relation to the canceling device for governing the position in which the card is to be presented'to the latter.

My present invention is designed to facilitate the adjustment of the parts, as well as the introduction, support, and removal of the cards to be canceled; and it consists in the special construction and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a plan of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a view of the under side of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation; Fig. 4, a sectional elevation on plane of line 4 4:, Fig. 1; Fig. 5, a

front view of the device; Fig. 6, a sectional elevation, upon an enlarged scale, of the spring-bolt; Fig. 7, a plan of a portion of a card.

A is the punch-lever, carrying the usual die or other canceling device. The other lever 13 is formed with two jaws B B, the lower one, B, forming an anvil and being perforated to receive the die. The levers A B are held apart in their normal position by the spring O.

The lower jaw B is formed with a series of screw-holes (1, arranged longitudinally, with any one of which the set-screw D may be made to engage. This set-screw D is used to clamp and hold the bracket E to the lower jaw of the punch, said bracket being adj ustable longitudinally thereon through the medium of the holes d, which are spaced to correspond to the distances between the side spaces on the card which is to be canceled.

An upper arm e of the bracket E carries a spring-bolt F, the lower end of which engages with any of the series of holes g in the gage G when brought into coincidence therewith.

The gage G is formed with the lower transverse member g', having the longitudinal slot 9 through which the stem of the set-screw D passes, so that the gage may be freely adjusted laterally in either direction when the set-screw is loosened.

Supported upon the transverse bar g is the upper parallel transverse member g of the gage-piece G, in which the series of holes g are formed. Extending upward from either end of the upper transverse member g are the guiding-arms g 9 which support between them the skeleton floor 9 consisting of the semicircular member g with its radial arms 9 The inner edge of the arm g flares outward to facilitate the introduction of the card and to act as a guide to conduct it squarely into position, while the other arm g is formed with a vertical lip 9 against which the opposite end of the card readily finds a bearing. The semicircularmember g facilitates the insertion and removal of the card by affording a free and unobstructed space for the fingers.

The operation of adjusting the gage so that it shall present a given space upon the card for cancellation is as follows: The bracketpiece E is set back or forward, as the case may be, to correspond with the distance from the edge of the card of the rows of spaces one of which it is desired to cancel, the setdirection.

By my present construction of adjustable gage the cards may be more quickly and conveniently brought into position for cancellation with less skill on the part of the operator than heretofore required.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a hand-punch substantially such as described, the bracketpiece E, adjustable longitudinally on the lower jaw of the punch, and carrying the spring-bolt F, and the transversely-adjustable gage G, arranged and operated substantially in the manner and forthe purpose described.

2. In combination with a hand-punch substantially such as described, formed with the longitudinal series of holes d, in its lower jaw, the bracket E, formed with the springbolt F, the set-screw D,and the gage G,formed with the lower transverse member g, having the longitudinal slot 9 and the upper transverse member g formed with the series of perforations g, together with the forwardlyprojecting arms g g the whole arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose described. I

3. In combination with a hand-punch and bracket E, adjustable longitudinally on the lower jaw of said punch and carrying the spring-bolt F, the laterally-adjustable gage G, formed with the gage-arms g g and skeleton floor g having the semicircular member 9 for the purpose and substantially in the manner described.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW.

Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEO. WM. MIAT'r. 

